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The decline in new infections continues
7.30 a.m.:
The German health authorities reported 8,616 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day.
In addition, 231 new deaths were recorded within 24 hours, according to figures from the RKI on Sunday.
Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded 11,192 new infections and 399 new deaths within 24 hours.
The high of 1,244 new reported deaths was reached on January 14th.
With 33,777 new infections registered within 24 hours, the highest value was reported on December 18 - but this also included 3,500 late reports.
The number of new infections reported within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants (seven-day incidence) was 75.6 on Sunday morning, according to the RKI.
Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at 197.6.
Most federal states continue to record falling seven-day incidences, according to the RKI.
The nationwide seven-day R-value estimated by the RKI was 0.95 on Saturday evening (previous day 0.93).
The RKI assumes that 100 infected people ultimately infected 95 other people, that is to say. The value depicts the infection process 8 to 16 days ago.
If it is below 1 for a long time, the infection process subsides.
The number of corona intensive care patients in Germany has fallen to below 4,000.
As can be seen from the time series of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (Divi), 3958 Covid 19 sufferers were treated in intensive care on Saturday (as of 12:17 p.m.).
That was 108 less than the day before.
Over half of the patients received invasive ventilation.
The last time the number of corona intensive care patients was below 4,000 on December 3, it had risen to over 5,700 by the beginning of January.
Lauterbach criticizes football European Cup games
6.40 a.m
.: In the current situation during the corona pandemic, SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach has no understanding of Champions League games and also sees a possible European football championship and the Olympics as "critical".
This competition sends the "wrong signal," said Lauterbach in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" with a view to the upcoming knockout games in the top football class.
"We are all supposed to refrain from traveling at the moment, the Chancellor also made this appeal, and to be honest, I don't understand why we should make an exception for a professional circus." The risk of introducing the virus is there.
The SPD politician cannot understand that the European Championship and the Olympics are to be held in a few months.
»In the summer it will be the case that in many places in Europe we will still have major problems and still high case numbers.
In the summer we will have the final battle for this first round of vaccination in Germany, "said Lauterbach, pointing out that with a view to the Olympics, athletes from countries are arriving there" where the worst is still to come - Africa or Latin America.
What bothers Lauterbach about IOC President Thomas Bach is that he is not developing a plan B.
“He simply says: We'll do it - and with that he is defying the international emergency.
This attitude is not exactly humble and does not fit into the attitude that sport should exemplify, «explained the politician, who is also against preferential vaccinations for athletes.
"Of course you can do it anyway, but it wouldn't be very exemplary."
Support for lockdown is falling
6:05 a.m.:
Every second citizen is against easing the lockdown.
According to a survey by the polling institute YouGov, 37 percent are in favor of extending the previous restrictions beyond February 14, and a further 13 percent are even in favor of tightening them.
In contrast, 30 percent are in favor of relaxation and 13 percent in favor of a complete return to normalcy.
7 percent did not provide any information.
The acceptance of the measures taken is dwindling: at the beginning of January - before the last extension of the lockdown - almost two thirds (65 percent) were in favor of maintaining or tightening the measures.
Acceptance of the current restrictions is greatest among the voters of the Greens.
64 percent of them are in favor of maintaining or tightening it.
Behind them follow the supporters of the SPD (57 percent), CDU / CSU (56) and FDP (51).
Only of the voters of the Left (49 percent) and the AfD (33) are less than half in favor of an unchanged extension or tightening of the lockdown.
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